The interest is warranted, but it was been true for a long time that the kernel spawns processes where the executable is in the kernel itself. https://www.quor

The interest is warranted, but it was been true for a long time that the kernel spawns processes where the executable is in the kernel itself. https://www.quora.com/What-is-kswapd0-in-Linux-Kernel https://www.quora.com/What-is-kswapd0-in-Linux-Kernel https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9154042/where-can-i-find-documentation-on-the-kflushd https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9154042/where-can-i-find... Here's some official documentation on it: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-8.html https://tldp.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-8.h...